Play nice. (perhaps the bridge is in the "Here's more from Britt"
part)
Ring of Net.
On the NEA (Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it, Anybody
can improve it) debate
(that started here
and continued here)
about the nature of the Net, Chuq
explains how Linus doesn't really own Linux... or, why he does and
doesn't. Not an easy line to draw. It's a yes but no kinda thing.
Which is why it's just easier to use the NEA characterization than
to explain its many exceptions. Think of it as a slogan, a tagline or a
rallying cry [~] like Land of the free, home of the brave. Yes,
there are exceptions; but it has the ring of truth to it. That ring
alone makes its point.
Here's more
from Britt.
[Source: The Doc Searls Weblog]
From a
fascinating piece on economics and (anti-)globalisation, by 1998
Nobel economics laureate, Amartya Sen:
The [anti-globalisation] protest movements are often ungainly,
ill-tempered, simplistic, frenzied and frantic, and they can also be
highly disruptive. And yet, at another level, they also serve the
function, I would argue, of questioning and disputing the unexamined
contentment about the world in which we live.
In this sense, the global doubts can help to broaden our
attention and extend the reach of policy debates, by confronting the
status quo and by contesting global resignation and acquiescence. That,
it can argued, is a creative role of doubts, even if some of the
presumptions and many of the proposed remedies that go with the protest
movements are themselves under examined and unclear.
It is important to recognise that the question-mongering role
of doubts can itself be creative and productive, and we have to separate
the disruptive parts of the protest movements from their constructive
function.
[Source: [ t e c h n o c
u l t u r e ]]
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